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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Teaching and Technology Summit

Last Thursday and Friday (Nov. 29-30), a group comprising faculty, faculty development coordinators, eLearning directors, and information technology leads met up to discuss strategies for leading transitions in higher education.

Here is a summary provided by one summit participant:

My Take Always from the Summit

Facilitating Change Models

William Bridges focuses on transitions and the psychological changes that lie behind behind significant organisational change.

He maintains that the situational changes are not as difficult for companies to make as the psychological transitions of the people impacted by the change. Read more...

Dr. John Kotter 8-Step Process for Leading Change *Having
a Simple and Clear Vision for the Change is Key *Email is not enough,
communication needs to be done at multiple levels *Walk the Talk *Short term
wins keeps everyone energized and focused on the goal *Never let up and change
up the theme or change agents for a fresh look

MOOC Discussion

Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education.

SBCTC new faculty course in canvas, we should get on
board with this. (Note: New Faculty Learning Community) . . .

Student online advocates (Note: Navigators)- this is an idea that some
colleges are trying where courses have a student advisor set as an observer
role in Canvas and their job is to monitor student progress and help students
getting through the first 3 weeks; how to log in, best practices for using
convesations, discussions, and communicating with their instructors.Might be something we can talk to advising
about.

Using Kotter 8 step process for leading change and
starting a CHANGE culture in IR.The
steps are there for directors and implementation leads on how to plan for the
change.Using email, face to face,
andmultimedia to get the word out prior
to change and getting the buy-in from the team.We really could have used this in the Canvas rollout as well.Looking back there was not a clear vision
that we communicated to the campus on the move to campus.This probably need to come from Instruction
on figuring out a positive vision that faculty can support. . . Better vision
statement:Canvas empowers our students
for success

There was also a discussion on MOOCs in the system and
how that would benefit not just the University systems but the mid level
colleges.

We need a better online orientation for Canvas
students.Work with DE on improving the
experience, not sure if the face to face model works.Maybe better to offer an online course and
also use to introduce Tech Cafe and have someone available at Tech Cafe for the
face to face support.